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Recent advances in search-augmented large reasoning models (LRMs) enable the retrieval of external knowledge to reduce hallucinations in multistep reasoning. However, their ability to operate on graph-structured data, prevalent in domains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jiajin Liu , Yuanfu Sun , Dongzhe Fan , Qiaoyu Tan

Visual Question Answering (VQA) aims to automatically answer natural language questions related to given image content. Existing VQA methods integrate vision modeling and language understanding to explore the deep semantics of the question.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xiangrui Su , Qi Zhang , Chongyang Shi , Jiachang Liu , Liang Hu

We present the task of Spatio-Temporal Video Question Answering, which requires intelligent systems to simultaneously retrieve relevant moments and detect referenced visual concepts (people and objects) to answer natural language questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Jie Lei , Licheng Yu , Tamara L. Berg , Mohit Bansal

Temporal grounding is the task of locating a specific segment from an untrimmed video according to a query sentence. This task has achieved significant momentum in the computer vision community as it enables activity grounding beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Linchao Zhu , Wenqiao Zhang , Yi Yang , Tat-Seng Chua , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

This paper proposes to improve visual question answering (VQA) with structured representations of both scene contents and questions. A key challenge in VQA is to require joint reasoning over the visual and text domains. The predominant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Damien Teney , Lingqiao Liu , Anton van den Hengel

Images are more than a collection of objects or attributes -- they represent a web of relationships among interconnected objects. Scene Graph has emerged as a new modality for a structured graphical representation of images. Scene Graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Weixin Liang , Yanhao Jiang , Zixuan Liu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) emerges as one of the most fascinating topics in computer vision recently. Many state of the art methods naively use holistic visual features with language features into a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Aiwen Jiang , Fang Wang , Fatih Porikli , Yi Li

Visual question answering (VQA) requires systems to perform concept-level reasoning by unifying unstructured (e.g., the context in question and answer; "QA context") and structured (e.g., knowledge graph for the QA context and scene;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Yanan Wang , Michihiro Yasunaga , Hongyu Ren , Shinya Wada , Jure Leskovec

Attention mechanisms have been widely applied in the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task, as they help to focus on the area-of-interest of both visual and textual information. To answer the questions correctly, the model needs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Tingting Qiao , Jianfeng Dong , Duanqing Xu

We introduce Audio-Visual Affordance Grounding (AV-AG), a new task that segments object interaction regions from action sounds. Unlike existing approaches that rely on textual instructions or demonstration videos, which often limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Lidong Lu , Guo Chen , Zhu Wei , Yicheng Liu , Tong Lu

Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) systems construct knowledge graphs over document collections to support multi-hop reasoning. While prior work shows that GraphRAG responses may leak retrieved subgraphs, the feasibility…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shuhua Yang , Jiahao Zhang , Yilong Wang , Dongwon Lee , Suhang Wang

In this paper, we propose an autonomous information seeking visual question answering framework, AVIS. Our method leverages a Large Language Model (LLM) to dynamically strategize the utilization of external tools and to investigate their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Ziniu Hu , Ahmet Iscen , Chen Sun , Kai-Wei Chang , Yizhou Sun , David A Ross , Cordelia Schmid , Alireza Fathi

We address the problem of Visual Question Answering (VQA), which requires joint image and language understanding to answer a question about a given photograph. Recent approaches have applied deep image captioning methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Huijuan Xu , Kate Saenko

Transformers for visual-language representation learning have been getting a lot of interest and shown tremendous performance on visual question answering (VQA) and grounding. But most systems that show good performance of those tasks still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Aisha Urooj Khan , Hilde Kuehne , Chuang Gan , Niels Da Vitoria Lobo , Mubarak Shah

Graph Transformers (GTs) have emerged as powerful architectures for graph-structured data, yet remain constrained by rigid designs and lack quantifiable interpretability. Current state-of-the-art GTs commit to fixed GNN types across all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Shruti Sarika Chakraborty , Peter Minary

Many vision and language tasks require commonsense reasoning beyond data-driven image and natural language processing. Here we adopt Visual Question Answering (VQA) as an example task, where a system is expected to answer a question in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Somak Aditya , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KVQA) requires external knowledge beyond the visible content to answer questions about an image. This ability is challenging but indispensable to achieve general VQA. One limitation of existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Jing Yu , Zihao Zhu , Yujing Wang , Weifeng Zhang , Yue Hu , Jianlong Tan

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as a highly engaging field in recent years, with increasing research focused on enhancing VQA accuracy through advanced models such as Transformers. Despite this growing interest, limited work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Zhilin Zhang , Fangyu Wu

Attention mechanisms have been widely used in Visual Question Answering (VQA) solutions due to their capacity to model deep cross-domain interactions. Analyzing attention maps offers us a perspective to find out limitations of current VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Wei Li , Zehuan Yuan , Xiangzhong Fang , Changhu Wang

Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) is a complex multi-modal reasoning task, demanding intelligent systems to accurately respond to natural language queries based on audio-video input pairs. Nevertheless, prevalent AVQA approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jie Ma , Min Hu , Pinghui Wang , Wangchun Sun , Lingyun Song , Hongbin Pei , Jun Liu , Youtian Du